Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 8

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Approved.

BU RoBOT 8

Operator: BU Rob13 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 17:03, Thursday, March 24, 2016 (UTC)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AWB

Source code available: AWB, regex below

Function overview: Substitute all transclusions of {{Tennis events 2}} across all namespaces to complete the merge into {{Tennis events}}.

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_March_30#Template:Tennis_events_2

Edit period(s): One time run

Estimated number of pages affected: 6,596

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Already has a bot flag (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: Very simple task. {{Tennis events 2}} has been a wrapper for ages, but no-one ever got around to substituting all the transclusions. Please note that the documentation for {{Tennis events 2}} suggests updating {{{type}}} with "men" or "women" according to the type of tournament, but those two inputs generate the exact same output currently (which you can see at Module:Tennis events nav, where {{{type}}} is used).

\{\{\s*(Tennis events 2|MastersEvents2|TennisEvents2) --> {{subst:Tennis events 2

Discussion

As a side note, many similar tasks are coming up as I clean out the backlog at WP:TFD/H. Thoughts on whether it would be appropriate to file a general BRFA to use similar regex to carry out simple substitution of wrappers to complete TfD merges/deletes would be helpful. There is precedent for such a BRFA here. ~ Rob^Talk 23:48, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I think approval for substitution of wrappers for template merging or deletion in response to clear TfD closures will be fine after we're done. Until then, Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. — Earwig ^talk 05:47, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Trial complete. The edits are here. I looked through over half while it was running and found no errors. ~ Rob^Talk 14:10, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - {{BAG assistance needed}} Only tagging this because it should be a very easy task to assess. ~ Rob^Talk 14:01, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    - Approved. — Earwig ^talk 23:21, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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